Police are NOT hunting down black people

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In 2018, the latest year for which federal data is available, there were about 3.7 million police-initiated contacts between law enforcement and black people, wherein nonlethal force or the threat of force was used. That same year, according to the Washington Post, 232 black people were shot dead by police. That would mean .006% of police-initiated contacts between law enforcement and black people, wherein nonlethal and lethal force was used, resulted in the death of a black person. The media myth that police are hunting down black people
 

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If you do a little math your statistical source also notes the following:

Police initiate contact with blacks at about 6 times thee rate as they initiate contact with whites.

In a given year police initiate contact with about 11% of all black people
In a given year police initiate contact with about 2% of all white people

of the above contacts 30% of police initiate contact with blacks results in the use of force or the threat of the use of force while only 2% of police initiate contact with whites results in the use of force or the threat of the use of force

In police initiate contact 4% of all blacks who are not attested are handcuffed while only 0.2% of whites are handcuffed
 
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If you do a little math your statistical source also notes the following:

Police initiate contact with blacks at about 6 times thee rate as they initiate contact with whites.

In a given year police initiate contact with about 11% of all black people
In a given year police initiate contact with about 2% of all white people

of the above contacts 30% of police initiate contact with blacks results in the use of force or the threat of the use of force while only 2% of police initiate contact with whites results in the use of force or the threat of the use of force

In police initiate contact 4% of all blacks who are not attested are handcuffed while only 0.2% of whites are handcuffed
Do you need me to provide you with the statistics that prove that Black people commit violent crimes at a rate far beyond White people, so when you look at the full picture it becomes obvious that police are responding to the conditions that Black people are causing. We could also look at which race has by far the highest incident of resisting arrest if you would like.
 
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Police are hunting down CRIMINALS!

And when they resist orders they are provoking the wrath of God on themselves:

"Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. ...For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil." (Romans 13:2-4)
 
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Do you need me to provide you with the statistics that prove that Black people commit violent crimes at a rate far beyond White people, so when you look at the full picture it becomes obvious that police are responding to the conditions that Black people are causing. We could also look at which race has by far the highest incident of resisting arrest if you would like.
you've tried that and you have failed
 
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Do you need me to provide you with the statistics that prove that Black people commit violent crimes at a rate far beyond White people, so when you look at the full picture it becomes obvious that police are responding to the conditions that Black people are causing. We could also look at which race has by far the highest incident of resisting arrest if you would like.

Ah... How quickly we went from "police aren't hunting black people" to "black people are being targeted by police because it's black people's fault."

If the vast majority of an entire population are all saying the same thing, maybe we should start listening to them instead of dismissing them. They might be trying to say something important...
 
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In 2018, the latest year for which federal data is available, there were about 3.7 million police-initiated contacts between law enforcement and black people, wherein nonlethal force or the threat of force was used. That same year, according to the Washington Post, 232 black people were shot dead by police. That would mean .006% of police-initiated contacts between law enforcement and black people, wherein nonlethal and lethal force was used, resulted in the death of a black person. The media myth that police are hunting down black people
I mean, even given how terribly myopic the statistical interpretation is, no one is claiming they're hunting them down, this isn't the police making sport of a race, it's systemic biases that are still around in society because of how police were used to, in no small part, hunt down runaway slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries
 
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Ah... How quickly we went from "police aren't hunting black people" to "black people are being targeted by police because it's black people's fault."

If the vast majority of an entire population are all saying the same thing, maybe we should start listening to them instead of dismissing them. They might be trying to say something important...
However the majority is saying nothing of the kind in fact the majority Black people approve of the police.
 
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However the majority is saying nothing of the kind in fact the majority Black people approve of the police.
Approving of the police does not mean approving of the way the police are behaving in regards to non white people
 
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I mean, even given how terribly myopic the statistical interpretation is, no one is claiming they're hunting them down, this isn't the police making sport of a race, it's systemic biases that are still around in society because of how police were used to, in no small part, hunt down runaway slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries
OK please provide evidence that there is a systemic bias in the police as a whole.
 
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OK please provide evidence that there is a systemic bias in the police as a whole.
Pretty sure others have already brought it up in this, you seem to just want to deflect and move the goalposts to make it so you don't have to confront any problems. And biases are not always so demonstrable, there are going to be ideas that have been deep seated culturally even with people not in the police as regards criminality, etc, and it can connect to racial stereotypes.
 
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There is no myth that police are hunting down black people. Chalk one up for a straw man that a opinion writer proceeds to attack. Let me guess, this is one of those articles where someone ignores rates in favor of total percentages. I love when rates are ignored to hide more glaring issues.
 
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There is no myth that police are hunting down black people. Chalk one up for a straw man that a opinion writer proceeds to attack. Let me guess, this is one of those articles where someone ignores rates in favor of total percentages. I love when rates are ignored to hide more glaring issues.
I think the opinion writer is on the defensive and refusing to see the scope of the problem. When parents fear that their children are targets, there is no trust in the law enforcers . All people do things that are "stupid". But it has been demonstrated that black people are killed just for being.
 
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If you do a little math your statistical source also notes the following:

Police initiate contact with blacks at about 6 times thee rate as they initiate contact with whites.
Yet statistically, more whites are shot and killed every year than blacks. So we may conclude that cops are hunting white people.
 
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Yet statistically, more whites are shot and killed every year than blacks. So we may conclude that cops are hunting white people.

"statistically"

100 out of 1000 white people die from a disease.

15 out of 100 Black people die from a disease.

Which group is the disease most deadly to? The white group who has the larger total number of deaths or the black group who has the higher rate of death?

But even ignoring your error in statistical interpretation:

more whites are shot and killed every year than blacks.

You should be mad about that too, though...
 
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I mean, even given how terribly myopic the statistical interpretation is, no one is claiming they're hunting them down, this isn't the police making sport of a race, it's systemic biases that are still around in society because of how police were used to, in no small part, hunt down runaway slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries

Oh my goodness how ridiculous that sounds. So your saying that police today are stuck in some sort of mindset because of what police did 200 years ago? Police today don’t have anything close to the mindset of police 200 years ago, they can’t even imagine what it was like being a police officer back then. Wow
 
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If you do a little math your statistical source also notes the following:

Police initiate contact with blacks at about 6 times thee rate as they initiate contact with whites.

In a given year police initiate contact with about 11% of all black people
In a given year police initiate contact with about 2% of all white people

of the above contacts 30% of police initiate contact with blacks results in the use of force or the threat of the use of force while only 2% of police initiate contact with whites results in the use of force or the threat of the use of force

In police initiate contact 4% of all blacks who are not attested are handcuffed while only 0.2% of whites are handcuffed

Yeah and every year almost half of the homicides committed in the US are by blacks despite them only making up for12% of our population. So perhaps this may provide some incite as to why your statistics are the way they are. According to those numbers blacks are far more prone to violence than any other race in the US. So that might explain why police are more prone to resorting to the use of force when apprehending blacks, because they have to.
 
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Yet statistically, more whites are shot and killed every year than blacks. So we may conclude that cops are hunting white people.

And one could also point out that blacks kill far more blacks than police do so one could say that blacks are hunting blacks more than any other group in America.
 
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